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Excerpt from: How I Became A Socialist First -- How did I become a Socialist? By reading. The first book I read was Wells’s “New Worlds for Old.” I read it on Mrs. Macy’s recommendation. She was attracted by its imaginative quality, and hoped that its electric style might stimulate and inspire me. When she gave me the book, she was not a Socialist and she is not a Socialist now. Perhaps she will be one before Mr. Macy and I have done arguing with her.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | How I Became A Socialist | |
| From: | Out Of The Dark | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1920 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.18-29 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Anne Sullivan; Autobiography; Blind; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; England; Germany; Government; Helen Keller; Ideologies; John Macy; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Media; New York; New York City, NY; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare; Socialism; Wells, H.G. | |
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| Note: | A letter printed in the New York Call, November 3, 1912. |
